* " Born to Rock " guitar exhibit at Harrods, London, February 2007, featuring the 1931 Rickenbacker " Frying Pan ".

Born Robert Newton Calvert in Pretoria, South Africa, Calvert's parents moved to England when he was two years of age ; he attended school in London and Margate.

Born in Milk Street in London on 7 February 1478, Thomas More was the son of Sir John More, a successful lawyer, and his wife Agnes ( née Graunger ).

Born in London England, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was privately educated.

Born in London to an aristocratic Whig family, son of Sir Penniston Lamb and Elizabeth Milbanke Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne ( 1751 – 1818 ) and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he fell in with a group of Romantic Radicals that included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

Born in London, Blunden was the eldest of the nine children of Charles Edmund Blunden ( 1871 – 1951 ) and his wife, Georgina Margaret née Tyler, who were joint-headteachers of a London school.

Born in London, and educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford, Edmund's father John Edmund Bentley, was professionally a civil servant but was also a rugby union international having played in the first ever international match for England against Scotland in 1871.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he was educated at Bradford Grammar School and the University of London where he achieved an MA degree in 1912.

Born in Chelsea, London, to a family descended from Huguenots ( the name was an Anglicisation of " Perthuis "; his full surname being " de Perthuis de Laillevault "), he was the son of noted screenwriter and actor Roland Pertwee and distant cousin of actor Bill Pertwee, who played Chief Warden Hodges in the comedy Dad's Army ( coincidentally, Jon Pertwee was the writers ' first choice for the role of Captain George Mainwaring in Dad's Army ).

Born in London, Niven attended Heatherdown and Stowe before gaining a place at Royal Military College at Sandhurst.

Born in Homerton in the London Borough of Hackney, London, Robinson attended the independent Woodford Green Preparatory School followed by Wanstead High School in what is now the London Borough of Redbridge.

Born in Kensington, London as Herbert Draper Beerbohm, Tree was the second son and second child of Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm ( 1810 – 1892 ), of Dutch, Lithuanian, and German origin, who had come to England in about 1830 and set up as a prosperous corn merchant.

Born into a working-class family in Ponders End, Middlesex, Tebbit went to Edmonton County School, an academically selective state school in north London.

Born in Maida Vale, London, he was the son of a wholesale jeweller and nephew of Rabbi Professor Sir Hermann Gollancz and Professor Sir Israel Gollancz ; after being educated at St Paul's School, London and taking a degree in classics at New College, Oxford, he became a schoolteacher.

Born in London on 14 April 1889, Arnold J. Toynbee was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford.

Born in London, Anthony attended Harrow School as a free day pupil for three years from the age of seven because his father's farm, acquired for that reason, lay in that neighbourhood.

Born in Somerset Road, Ealing, London, he was educated at the Dragon School, Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford.

Born in London, Hogg was the son of Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, who was Lord Chancellor under Stanley Baldwin, and grandson of another Quintin Hogg, a merchant, philanthropist, and educational reformer.

Born in London to a headmistress and a travelling salesman, she made her professional debut on the London stage in 1927, at the age of 18.

Born in London, Chamberlain made his career in Birmingham, first as a manufacturer of screws and then as a notable Mayor of the city.

He was replaced as the director of Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), but he went on to direct The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), A Star Is Born ( 1954 ) and My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).

Over the course of seven years, the trio collaborated on seven films, including A Double Life ( 1947 ) starring Ronald Colman, Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), The Marrying Kind ( 1952 ), and It Should Happen to You ( 1954 ), all starring another Cukor favorite, Judy Holliday, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Born Yesterday.

* 1950 – Roscoe Born, American actor

* Born Yesterday ( 1950 )

Born in 1950, Ryan's background is established in Patriot Games and Red Rabbit.

Receiving positive notices for Adam's Rib, Holliday was cast in the 1950 film version of Born Yesterday, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950, Hazel grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey because his mother, Grace Cook, wanted her son to grow up in an environment without the pressures of drugs and crime that she felt pervaded New York City.

Born in Hazard in 1950.

* Born Yesterday ( 1950 )

Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, Athina is the only child of Christina Onassis ( 1950 – 1988 ) and her fourth husband, Thierry Roussel, a French pharmaceutical heir and brother of Christine Hélène, the current duchess of Luynes by her marriage with Jean d ' Albert, 12th duc de Luynes.

Her success in the 1946 stage production of Born Yesterday as " Billie Dawn " led to her being cast in the 1950 film version, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Born in Evesham in 1950.

Born 1950 in Tampico, killed in the 1985 Mexico City earthquake.

Born in The Hague, Netherlands, his family emigrated to Canada in 1950, settling in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Born of Jewish heritage in Toronto, Gotlieb graduated from the University of Toronto with degrees in literature in 1948 ( BA ) and 1950 ( MA ).

Born in Oakland, California, Corbató received a bachelor's degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1950, and then a Ph. D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956.

In 1950 Loos began writing A Mouse is Born, another novel, and when it was safely in the hands of the publisher she left for the continent, her first trip to Europe in twenty years.

Born in Denver, CO, he graduated from West Point in 1944 and earned a master's degree in English literature from Columbia University in 1950.

Born in London on 17 May 1950, the son of Stephen and Lillian Johnson, he was orphaned at the age of 12 when his mother died.

He had an acting role in Born Yesterday, the 1993 remake of the 1950 romantic comedy.

Born in Mickley, Northumberland, the son of a miner, Stokoe began his footballing career at Newcastle United, signing for them in 1947 and playing the first of 287 games, usually as centre-half, on Christmas Day 1950 against Middlesbrough, a game in which he also scored.

Entered service at: Tawas City, Mich. Born: June 5, 1950, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.